Just wondering about potential food fights at the Thanksgiving table.
Is everyone in your family voting for the same person for President?
Even split?
More towards one party than the other?
I am a die-hard Obama fan in Nevada.
My two brothers would vote for anybody except Obama - so two Romney votes there - but one lives in Illinois so his Romney vote is useless, and the other lives in Arizona, so his Romney vote is expected and there is no surprise expected from Arizona anyway.
My closest cousins are voting Obama (in Illinois) and that is about it from family.
ALL of my friends in every state are voting Obama, and even my American friends in Berlin voted for Obama absentee (I have very liberal Democratic friends).
So, are you the exception in your family/circle of friends?
Afraid of getting pumpkin pie thrown in your face this Thanksgiving?
Or are you surrounded by like-minded family and friends and will be celebrating (or bitching) together this Thanksgiving?
Aside from my wife, I’m the only one in my immediate family to care about politics. My mother will probably vote for Obama if she votes. My sister and brother-in-law would probably vote for Romney but almost certainly won’t bother.
We live in Illinois so no one cares what they do anyway.
My wife’s side lives in Virginia and will probably go brother strong for Romney, sister luke-warm Obama, father for Obama (if he votes), mother weak for Romney (if she votes).
I’m voting a split ticket this year, as I often do.
The Druidess is likely to cancel my vote for POTUS (not that it matters, because this state is solidly red), but otherwise will probably vote the same way I will…GoP incumbent for Senate, Dem challenger for House, and Dem-backed non-partisan judicial candidate.
The rest of my family–except one liberal aunt–will vote for Romney at the top of the ticket, but I don’t know what they’ll do in local elections, as the family is scattered across multiple states.
Haven’t much discussed it with my elder relatives. I do know, though, that they think Bill O’Reilly is the smartest guy around, so…
My wife’s whacko-fundie relatives prayed in 2008 about the election. One of them forwarded an email to me to pray. I replied with a question if it still counted if I prayed *for *Obama to win. I don’t get emails from them anymore.
My wife is going to vote Obama. My son voted Obama. My brother, I really don’t know.
My daughter and I are the only Democrats in the family and it’s starting to look like out of our long-time friends too. My brother, always a die-hard Republican, says he’s not voting for Romney but I don’t really believe him. I don’t say anything, of course. He says he’s voting independent because they stand for more of what he believes in, but he’s not a stupid man. He knows for him an independent vote is a vote for Obama.
There are only a few republicans on either side of my family so when they’re around we avoid politics except for extremely polite generalities and arguments framed in a “one could argue” disassociated sort of way. But my maternal grandfather is a dyed in the wool DFLer and my paternal grandfather is a social justice-focused catholic like you wouldn’t believe and they’ve kind of set the political tone for the families.
I am an Obama voter and volunteer; I’ll be ferrying people to the polls tomorrow.
My best friend from college and her husband are Romney supporters. After the 2008 friendship fiasco we have agreed not to discuss politics.
My best friend from high school is a Romney supporter as well, but we can still talk politics.
My baby sister was, when last we spoke on the issue, undecided. I haven’t asked since, as the only reason we were talking about it was that she was complaining about the pressure another of our sisters was putting her under to vote for Obama.
My father is going to vote for Obama, though based strictly on states positions he SHOULD be voting for Romney. But I am not in charge of him.
The brother I get along with is almost certain to go for Obama, though I haven’t actually asked; the brother I can’t stand is almost certain to go for Romney.
I don’t know how my wife is voting; I haven’t asked.
My favorite niece is voting for the first time this year and is giggly in her support for Obama.
My next-favorite niece is also eligible to vote for the first time but is apathetic.
Pretty much all Obama, except for one aunt and uncle, one cousin (the child of a different aunt and uncle), and possibly my grandmother (who, however, has fairly advanced dementia, so she probably won’t vote at all). And, obviously, my nephews won’t be voting as they are both under three.
Me, Obama naturally. My wife is also voting for Obama, because she can’t stand Romney. Two sons- both I’m sure voting for Obama. One daughter for Obama, likely other two for Romney
Wife’s brothers: quite likely 9-0 for Romney. One would surely chop off his dick if it meant getting Obama out of the White House. Wife’s sisters- no idea.
I don’t know who my brothers or their wives are voting for. I don’t talk to them very often. If I had to guess I’d say Romney, but it could go either way. My parents, and especially my Dad, are strong Romney supporters. They are glued to Fox News all the time.
My wife will vote for Obama, and at least two of her four siblings. The other two are on the fence. Again her parents, especially her father, is a Rush Limbaugh-listening Romney voter. Among our familes it very much seems like a generational thing.
As far as our friends, most of them are Romney supporters - we live in a very red state. So we don’t discuss politics with our close friends if we can avoid it.
I would guess two of three aunts are as well. The other lives in Texas so I don’t know what she will do, as it won’t matter.
Two of four cousins will vote Obama. Another lives in Texas, so again, I don’t know. The fourth lives in Switzerland and will vote Obama if he remembered to request an absentee ballot.
My grandfather will vote for Romney in PA.
My brother isn’t voting because he’s lazy and I’m not voting because LA County lost my mail-in registration and it’s too late to fix it. Since California is going blue, I’m more pissed about the ballot initiatives, particularly since I work indirectly for LAUSD and can’t vote on Prop 30.
Where I work out of over 120 I have only heard 5 people claim they will vote for Obama.
Other than that, every friend, acquaintance, and family member I have, and there are a lot of them, have proclaimed they are voting for Romney, as am I.
My family? No clue. Not even my wife. She might not even be voting. My friends? I assume about an 80-20 Obama-Romney split. This is based on the very loose metric of seeing how many friends liked the Obama page, and how many friends like the Romney page on my Facebook. And that sounds about right, although I think among my closer circle, it’d be more like 70-30.